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Published by Jaico Publishing House
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Isha Foundation

MIND IS YOUR BUSINESS
ISBN 978-81-8495-695-5

First Jaico Impression: 2015

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The mind seems to be a rather dynamic entity its mysterious workings have cast a spell on scientists, spiritual seekers, and even poets and novelists. Mark Twain once jested, I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. Though we freely use such terms as never mind and mind you, most of us still have a rather ambiguous idea of what the mind really is. Poets, psychiatrists and philosophers have each given their own take on the subject (often contradicting one another), and of course, the clich Mind, Body and Spirit finds mention in bookstores and spiritual expos all around the world.

However, for most people, the question is less about what the mind is, and more about what type of influence it has on our daily experience of life. Most of us experience the mind as a continuous and seemingly unstoppable train of thoughts running through our heads. Behind this incessant flow lies a sophisticated web of likes, dislikes, attitudes, habits, inhibitions, morals and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. This often unconscious patchwork determines how we interact and relate to the world around us, giving shape to our joys, griefs, pleasures, and fears.

Few indeed have the perception and depth to see the enigmatic strings which bind this mind into a seemingly solid structure. Fewer are those who find ways to articulate it. In Mind Is Your Business, Sadhguru brings clarity to the conundrum, exploring the possibilities and the pitfalls of the mind, and how it can be cultivated for inner peace, joy, and effectiveness. Compiled from a variety of discourses, this volume weaves together questions posed by seekers over the years from the probing enquiries of hardened skeptics, to the exasperated pleas of ardent seekers. The questions are diverse, the answers multifaceted. Addressing the questioners innate urge to know, Sadhguru answers more than the question posed; he clarifies even the underlying questions that remain unvoiced.

The following pages, laden with Sadhgurus inimitable wit and humor, are a voyage of discovery. Demolishing overused clichs and misconceptions about ones ability to control the mind and have pure thoughts, Sadhguru goes beyond morality and impractical advice, to lay bare the deceptive drama of the mind. He calls the mind a circus, one that can render you to the depths of hell within yourself, but that can also take you to great heights. Meditation, he explains, is not only a powerful device to harness the immense capabilities of the mind, which are left untapped by a majority of human beings, but to access the mystical dimensions of life that are entirely beyond the minds purview. The whole process of yoga, Sadhguru says, is to give one the ability to use the mind as a tool for ones wellbeing and liberation.

It is this shift from being a slave to the mind to having the mastery to use it at will which this book seeks to offer.

English Publications
Isha Foundation

The Circus of the Mind

Only if you are out of the circus of your mind, you will be hundred percent free of madness

Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.

If you look at the way neurons are firing in the brain and what is happening, there is a tremendous sense of cohesiveness in this activity. It is that cohesiveness which is translating into the functioning of the body. A billion things are happening in this body right now simply because there is an extremely well-coordinated play and dance of neurons in the brain. But unfortunately, in most peoples experience, the mind has become a mess. It is like a circus, and both aspects of a circus are there. Even the clown in the circus is a highly coordinated gymnast. The outer expression may be that of a clown, but he is extremely talented and balanced in his activity.

That is the experience of most people when it comes to their mental activity.

What is the possibility of this circus? This circus can take you to great heights; this circus can also render you to the depths of hell within yourself. Both these possibilities are very alive for every one of us right now. The whole thing is a question of how we conduct this circus and how much of it we take charge of.

Why is it that for one person the mind seems to be a pleasant experience, while for another person the mind seems to be a torture device? Why is it that the mind, which is the most miraculous instrument and the most miraculous possibility in our life, has also become such a misery-manufacturing machine? Every kind of misery that human beings are going through is manufactured in their minds. Unable to bear the mental torture, people have invented various kinds of deviations and perversions on this planet just to somehow deal with the mess of the mind. These perversions might give them temporary relief, but after some time the perversions only multiply the mess. They do not really take it away.

Your mind that which should have been a ladder to the divine has unfortunately become a stairway to hell, simply because it is too identified with so many things. Once it gets identified, your perception becomes distorted and this distortion permeates every aspect of your life.

People keep telling me, Sadhguru, for you the biggest thing in your life just happened unasked. Maybe you are chosen. How will it happen to us? It is not a question of anyone choosing anything for you; it is just that if you keep your intellect unidentified from anything, starting from your body if you do not even look at yourself as a man or a woman, if you do not identify with your family, your qualifications, your society, your caste, creed, community, nation, or whatever million other identifications that you take on in your life every human being will naturally lead himself on to his ultimate nature. If we have to experience the circus of the mind as a miraculously coordinated activity rather than as a mess, the most important and crucial thing is that your intellect is not identified with anything. There is no other way.

The intellect is like a scalpel which is constantly cutting through everything. Your ability to discriminate between one thing and the other is purely because of your intellect. You can make a distinction between the floor and the chair only because your intellect is functioning. You know that you must come through the door, not through the wall, only because your intellect is functioning. Without the activity of the intellect, you cannot discriminate.

If a knife has to cut through anything effortlessly and well, it is extremely important that whatever it cuts through does not stick to it. If the residue keeps sticking to the knife, after some time this knife becomes useless. Some of you must have experienced in your kitchens, when you cut an onion with a knife, and then cut mangoes or apples, everything tastes like an onion. Once the residue of what you cut through sticks to the knife, in many ways that knife becomes more of a nuisance than a help. Or in other words, once your intellect identifies with something or the other, it gets chained with the identifications. Once this happens, you have a completely distorted experience of the mind.

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